Sunday, May 3, 2009

Macarons, the fancy french kind!

I did it. I conquered one of my baking fears. I made French Macarons. I was totally inspired by my friend Susan over at She's BecomingDoughmesstic. Susan made some gorgeousOrange DreamsicleMacaronsthis week and her pictures and write up made me feel like I could do it. Her tweets of encouragement gave me no other option but to try. And I had egg whites in the fridge needing to be used too.

I had decided to make lemon lime macarons. I had some great limes in the fridge and some leftover lemon buttercream from this weeks cupcakes. I was hesitant to add too much food colouring and I really didn't add enough. They aren't green at all! They are more orange than green, so that is why I used an orange backdrop! Compliments them nicely! But they do taste like lemon and lime, nice and citrusy. Fantastic!

Susan has the recipe posted on her blog here. Rather than copy it all out for you, hope over there and check out her Orange DreamsicleMacarons, and all the other amazing things she does!

Thank you Susan for the inspiration and motivation! Now to make them chocolate and hazelnut, chocolate and mint, ooohhh chocolate and orange! Bring it on. I am no longer afraid!

Excellent! You did an amazing job! So glad I could give you a little guidaance - you took it and ran with it!Join the cookie carnival this month - we are making hazelnut macs and you already know how...so why not??

Wow, they really came out perfect eh! I saw your comment about the cookie carnival macarons and had to come see. Any tips for a first timer? I noticed that you got the "foot" just right and the shells are perfectly flat and shiny, is there a certain method to this because I have seen some ugly macarons.